As an Independent Contractor Physician, when you are at work, you are complete control. In order to have that complete control on the rest of your life, you need to first look at the way you are earning your money, how it is being paid to you, and what you are doing with that money. There are several ways to change the amount of money you keep, which can result in you actually working less to earn the same amount of money, and it doesn’t matter how long or short the period of time you have been practicing. If you would like to learn how you, as a Physician can lower taxes and protect assets, keep reading.

Nice Assets

With some young doctors, purchasing expensive homes, cars, boats, and other toys seems to takeprecedence over saving for a rainy day. For a young physician starting out in a specialty with an early burnout rate, this is especially dangerous. What if you could have an extra 15% of your income? Not only would it make paying for these assets easier, it could be the easiest way to fund your retirement. and it doesn’t matter if you are the owner/partner in a practice, or if you are an employee.

Become Your Own Employer

Whether your are the owner/partner of a practice, an Independent Contractor Physician or employee, lower taxes comes from changing your compensation structure. This is the first step in taking control of your taxes. Becoming your own employer can be as easy a forming a physician corporation or an LLC. This allows you to pay some expenses direct from the business, and collect dividends on the profits.

Pay Yourself First

As the owner of your Physician Corporation, you get to determine how you compensate yourself. By paying yourself first, we are referring to the funds that will go into your retirement accounts. These funds are not taxed until you actually withdraw the money to spend it, so by putting as much as possible in to tax advantaged retirement accounts, you are effectively reducing the amount of income taxes you will pay annually, in addition to reducing your payroll tax expenses as well.

Social Insecurity

Everyone has to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes. What everyone does not have to do is overpay them. By reducing your Physician Salary to one that that is reasonable, you can reduce the Medicare taxes you pay, and eliminate the additional matching portion that your Physician Corporation would pay as well. For years citizens have been asking for the ability to invest their own social security funds, because few think it will be there when it comes time to collect. We can show you how to make it happen today.

Physician Pension

We have now arrived at the most important piece of information. The Physician Pension is not only the vehicle that will single handedly reduce your income taxes by nearly $50,000 per year, but it is the vehicle that will dictate how many years you work, how many hours you work each week, and even give you the flexibility to retire after just 15 or 20 years of work, rather than the typical 30 years. Your Physician Pension allows you to pay, as a business expense, a contribution that, given the right investment strategy, can allow you to take a salary of up to $195,000 each year in retirement. As an added incentive to take advantage of a Pension Plan, retirement plans are exempt from civil judgment in most states. This means that not only would you be adding to your net worth, but your Physician Pension protects assets. This is much more cost effective than most any other asset protection strategy.

Hire an Expert

You have gone to school for several years, completed Internships, Residency, and perhaps even a number of fellowships to attain the level of expertise you possess. When it comes to establishing your Physician Corporation and setting up your Physician Pension, make certain that you are working a Physician Business Manager who has the expertise you require. What you want is someone thorough and detailed, not a document filing service and a broker who is looking to sell you something, rather than actually managing your assets for your well being. Keep in mind that the ideas discussed above are just a sample of the various tax savings that are available to Physicians. You work hard for your money, and should look for every viable avenue to minimize your tax burden, but make sure you work with a professional. We take care of the areas of business you hate to do, so you can do what you love to do.

My Professional CFO, LLC, is a Business Management firm providing the highest level of service in three key areas of importance to Independent Contractor Physicians, Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs.

We specialize in Corporation filings and ongoing Compliance, Accounting and Payroll, and Investment Management. Our professionals will assist you in forming the appropriate type of company for your situation and work with you to make sure your company remains compliant. We provide ongoing Accounting and Payroll services to make certain all bills are paid and necessary tax forms and withholding payments are made in a timely manner, as well as the set up and management of your retirement accounts.

We are not simply a document filing service; we are here to help you with the part of the business that you have to do, so you can focus on what you love to do.

Alan Conner, MBA – President of My Professional CFO, LLC has nearly 2 decades of experience working with professionals and small business during both the start-up and ongoing management. He has written countless business plans and has managed assets for both institutions and high net worth clients.

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